This is an analysis of the poem The Medusa Of Despair that begins with:

I may not mask for ever with the grace
Of woven flowers thine eyes of staring stone:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cXdXcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111110001 01010110101 1011010101 1011010111 1011011101 1111010011 1101110111 11001010101 0101110101 1100110111 1111100101 11100100100 1111000101 11010100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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